Sony’s Next-Gen Developer Framework to Be Based on GNUstep and Objective-C

Sony:

Sony’s Networked Application Platform is a project designed to leverage the open source community to build and evolve the next generation application framework for consumer electronic devices. […]

The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably.

Via Avi Bryant, who aptly quips, “NeXT gets the last laugh.”

★ Wednesday, 24 November 2010